- From: Rushforth, Peter <Peter.Rushforth@NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca>
- Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 16:42:32 +0000
- To: "liam@w3.org" <liam@w3.org>
- CC: "public-xmlhypermedia@w3.org" <public-xmlhypermedia@w3.org>
> > http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/mime-respect-20060412#media-type > > No, the media type registration is intended to describe how > XML is transmitted in MIME-compliant systems, including over HTTP. > A fair clarification. > It is not the authoritative definition of XML itself, that of > course is at http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml The media type registration for XML includes that URL as a reference. In the TAG finding: ... "the media type as describing the sender's preferred, intended, and definitive interpretation of the data, rather than as defining a specific processing model for the recipient." I think if there was a term for what is described by that sentence, the authors would have used it, somehow. In any case, with regard to XML, that preferred, intended, and definitive interpretation is pretty clearly the XML spec itself. What's astonishing is how many XML vocabularies rely only on application/xml on the web. The MIME system is fundamental to the web, as far as I can tell. Seems to me if you extend the preferred, intended and definitive interpretation of a format with extensions, it's similar to adding new characters to Morse code: you're on your own! Cheers, Peter
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